Any chance it'll work with just a Bluetooth connection as a music player in future? I jumped into my backup vehicle and my phone automatically connected to the deck and NewPipe came up on my phone automatically - but hitting play didn't seem to do anything. Womp Womp
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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As a note, you have to follow these easy steps to setup:
- Go to the Android system settings
- Navigate to
Connected devices > Connection preferences > Android Auto(you can also find it by inserting "Android Auto" in the search box)- Scroll to the bottom until you find "Version"
- Click multiple times on "Version" to activate developer settings
- Press "OK" in the activation dialog
- After activation, click on the 3-dot menu in the top-right and go to "Developer settings"
- Scroll down until you find "Unknown sources" and tick the checkbox
- Restart your phone
- You should now be able to use NewPipe in the car interface!
I mean yeah, its Googles OS... Why would they make it easy for people to escape their software lock in hell?
Not only Google, but also the automotive sector. It's almost guaranteed to have a lot of hoops to jump through till you can run a simple app like this.
What do?
I don't know which phone you use, but for Graphene OS with sandboxed google play + auto, this is the way:
- System settings
- Apps
- Sandboxed Google Play
- Android Auto
- Android Auto settings
- (then continue from here with dev mode)
Has anyone been able to get this to work? I went through these steps a few days ago and NewPipe doesn't show up in my Android Auto apps list.
I did follow these steps and newpipe appears in my app list. However, the app doesn't do anything besides showing a black screen.
I don't use YouTube as a music source, but that's a cool addition for others regardless
I remember I've had problems finding android auto settings before. I thought I might be able to help, but 
(On a Ulefone running mostly stock android).
I think the other person who replied to you has a good suggestion though. For me, I can find it at "Settings" -> "Apps" -> "All apps" -> Android Auto -> "additional settings in the app"
They sure don't make it easy
Was wondering why this isn't showing up, but then I remembered, that I switched to PipePipe
Not really following their development. Anyone knows, if are they merging such changes from NewPipe?
NewPipe stopped working for me some time ago and that's why I switched.
Thought they stopped development altogether.
Wasn't there such rumour?
NewPipe have been working again for months for me. But until about a couple of weeks ago "related video" list in the video player was broken, didn't show anything. It's now works fine.
But I also still have PipePipe any case either of them broken, I'm falling back to the other one.
I don't know about NewPipe developmet stop rumour, but I remember reading their readme.md that they've been working a significant rewrite of the app.
Thanks for the input!
I'm currently having PipePipe and Tubular in parallel.
Hmm... Maybe I switched because of the integrated sponsorblock and I just wrongly remember that NewPipe development stopped
Was quite some time ago...
PipePipe is a hard fork of NewPipe that doesn't track changes from upstream. Tubular is a soft fork of NewPipe that does track changes from upstream. It's explained in PipePipe's README.
Ah, thanks!
At the time I switched to PipePipe, I was merely searching for a quick replacement, that still works.
Wasn't actually reading to much about it